HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:15:04 -0700 (MST) Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote
>
>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote:
>>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:19:51 +0100 Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote >>
>>>> No, video mode won't work with the nVidia blob.  That requires
>>>> a KMS (in-kernel) driver.
>>>
>>> Thank you for the reply, Gary.
>>>
>>> Ahh. I see. So unless I have ATI hardware, I'm pretty much out of luck?
>>
>> Or Intel, or anything with KMS drivers.
>
> Thanks. Everything I manage, is using nVidia. Looks like
> the kms VESA might work. But I'm not sure if there would
> be any appreciable gain going that route (assuming it's even
> possible).

It's worth asking Nvidia directly.  I would not be optimistic about 
that, but it's easy to try, and they might surprise everyone.

Another option might be nouveau.  Don't know the current status of 
whether that works on FreeBSD, though.